Stories from Saturday, August 13, 2011

Jess and Ginger Ervin, Uniontown, Kan., and older brother Blake are proud to announce the birth of their son and baby brother, Levi Walker Ervin. Levi was born at 11:54 a.m., Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011, at Mercy Heath Center, Fort Scott, Kan. He weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces...

Jeffery Ray Taylor, 42, a resident of rural Wheatland, Mo., died Aug. 11, 2011, at the Cox South Medical Center in Springfield, Mo. He was born April 11, 1969, in Fort Scott, Kan., the son of Richard Eugene Taylor Sr. and Lucy Ann Garrison Taylor. Jeff graduated from Fort Scott High School and later served with the United States Marine Corps during Operation Desert Storm. ...

Betty Ann Wolfe, 81, of Liberty, Mo., passed away on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011, at the Liberty Hospital in Liberty, Mo. She was born Betty Ann Bollman on Jan. 6, 1930, in Springfield, Mo., the only child of the late Alvan L. and Mabel H. (Mitchell) Bollman. ...

Ruby Joan Singmaster, 75, Fort Scott, Kan., died Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011, at the Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott, Kan. She was born on Aug. 25, 1935, at Pleasanton, Kan., the daughter of Hughie U. and Margaret E. Norbury Black. She graduated from Pleasanton High School and worked at the Bank of Pleasanton for many years before retiring. She was a member of the Community Christian Church and was involved in the Women's Bible Study. She was also a member of the VFW Auxiliary...

Nevada, Mo.-- Leviathon Lee Dipman, 20, of Nevada, appeared with his attorney Michael Shanahan before Associate Circuit Judge Neal Quitno on Thursday and waived his right to a preliminary hearing on two charges of murder in the first degree related to the May 2009 stabbing deaths of Annie Reed and Kylie Leyva, both of Nevada. Dipman is to be arraigned Aug. 23...

FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- The theme of community support is continues for the Woodland Hills Golf Course with a local bank awarding a substantial grant to the city of Fort Scott. A check presentation was held Friday morning at City Hall so representatives of Citizens Bank could present the city with a $25,000 check for improvements to the golf course purchased by the city in March...

On Aug. 20, beginning at 9 a.m., hundreds of antiques, historical items and Nevada area memorabilia and artifacts will be put on the auction block at the Bar H Boys Ranch, west of Nevada. It's the collection of Lloyd Weber, who collected and sold antiques in the area -- particularly antiques of local interest, for many years prior to his death in 2009...

Nevada, Mo. -- In an auction that is expected to last three days, the last of the inventory from the Vinyard Farm and Home Supply will go on the auction block at 1004 East Austin Blvd., beginning at 10 a.m., today. The auction of the large inventory will resume on Sunday at 1 p.m., and if necessary, will pick up again at 10 a.m., Monday...

WICHITA, Kan. -- For the third time in their history, the Nevada Griffons will return home with the third-place trophy from the National Baseball Congress World Series after falling to three-time champion Kenai (Alaska) in the semifinals, 11-6, at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium Friday night...